Wordless Wednesday – What Washes Up

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Wordless Wednesday – Sweetness Amid Ruin

Wordless Wednesday – Unexpected Beauty

Wordless Wednesday – Bloomin’ Flowers

Wordless Wednesday – On my Walk

Wordless Thursday -Outside the Art Museum

Snack

Yesterday I saw
that the deer
who comes through the yard
stopped and snacked on
my hosta

leaving nothing but the
central vein of
each leaf, which,
I have learned
is called the rachis

just these
rachises sticking up
where each delicious
blue-green leaf had been

Now the “blue angel”
is nothing
but a cluster of spikes,
unappetizing bits
to a deer

That’s the price
I suppose
for building my home
so close to hers

Photo by Mary Bach

Wordless Wednesday – Hope is…

NaPoWriMo – Day #30!

April bows out
leaving so prettily
though yesterday
was rainy, cold and gray

birdsong
starts this day,
insects flit and buzz everywhere,
and the pigeons low cooing
continues until dusk

Sun and wind and greening grass,
clean smell of growing things
and freshly turned earth
promise gardens of delight
to come
The flowers of May
the fruits of June
and August’s bounty
drying, dying into autumn

We made it!  Congratulations to everyone who wrote 30 poems in 30 days during the month of April!  Well done, you!

NaPoWriMo – Day #29

Under my tongue
sits the world,
dissolving

slipping down
the back
of my throat

I can feel it
growing
within me

oceans roll
through my veins

leaves sprout
from my fingertips

deserts and prairies
bloom in my eyes
and we are radiant